"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own and to return to his country." "The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights"

When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.

The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Kras

The first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945, s

Alexandra Costa, wife of the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington, relates the account of her escape to freedom, with all its excitement--secret